Brandy Jennings of Collier County, along with Lee County residents Joshua Nelson, Kevin Foster, Anton Krawczuk, and Harold Lucas are among those on death row.

They've been sitting there for years costing taxpayers millions of dollars, but the question is: Now that the state is resuming executions, will their death sentences be carried out?

Death row inmate Wayne Doty told us in 2016 that it's his time to go, although no date for his death has been scheduled. Doty is among the nearly 400 inmates waiting to die in Florida.

“If they have done a heinous crime, they should no longer be living,” said Andrea Prather.

Florida's death penalty is still a hotly debated topic.

“I have really mixed emotions because morally I'm not sure that we should be in a position to play God,” said Darrell Bauchert of Fort Myers. “I'm also concerned it takes so long that I'm not sure it serves as a deterrent."

But Governor Rick Scott has signed his first death warrant of the year. The state had been in legal limbo over two things: The way executions were performed and whether the jury's sentencing decision should be unanimous.

Since 1976, 92 people have been executed in our state, including Arthur Goode, who raped and killed a 9-year-old Cape Coral boy back in 1976 and was later electrocuted in 1984.

“It was a big deal back then and the whole community was scared,” said Attorney Scot Goldberg, who was 10 at the time.

Goode abducted Jason VerDow from his bus stop and lured him into the woods and killed him.

Goldberg said children were afraid to go to their bus stop until VerDow was eventually caught.

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Florida spends $1 million per year on each death row prisoner.

“It's an economic strain on the whole state having anyone sit on death row,” Goldberg said.

Death row certified attorney David Brenner, who has tried 24 capital cases, predicts the costs will rise now that more than half of the state’s inmates are entitled to be resentenced by a jury rather than a judge.

“It's going to be at least some time before we have an answer on whether people in Southwest Florida and across the state can be executed given the change in the laws."

Taxpayers Justin Romero calls it a waste of time and money.

“If you've gone that far to get accused of it, I think you should go down."